Becoming Alpha by Lunging with Purpose 

The sound is not real good on this video, and partway through there’s quite a bit of wind. I apologize for that.

I've never ridden horses, I have no interest at all. But there's something about Dewayne, I would listen to him talk about horse poop for 2 hours.

"Sombody worthy of obedience." So many folks expect blind obedience. That aint good. Follow blindly and you'll teach them to fall for anything. Im a single father to my daughter. This is a concept I work on daily. I want her to know what a good man is. So when she grows up, she might think twice about falling for a dud.

Keep the horsemanship videos coming! Love it, especially to see practical methods for the average rider. Would love to see a 3-4 video “tune up” series, maybe a follow up episode under saddle? Thanks for sharing.

I have learned an incomprehensible amount of wisdom from you that has truly changed my life. I caught high blood pressure early at 23 years old recently, specifically because of one of your videos where you discussed your personal experience with it, and now I am learning more about horses than I ever thought I could! You are truly a library filled with all the untapped humanity we all need in this world!! Thank you so much Dewayne!!!!

Dewayne: "He's not an alpha horse" Mouse: " What did you just say about me?" 🤣

Beautiful creatures.. these training videos are such a great learning experience

You did a great job of making it clear what lounging is about in this situtation. Mindset and control verses treaching new things. I really enojoyed the geting back to outside and horsemanship videos. Keep them coming. Thanks

I am so happy I found your channel. I love hearing your experiences. Keep on doing what you do. 😊

Glad to see you're planning on doing more horse videos, I really enjoy your approach to horsemanship.

Thanks for doing a video on a problem that is very common in horses and not near as common to see in most youtube and instagram videos

It’s great to have a refresher course coming out of winter. I have a few that need to brought back to basics this spring as well

I do this all the time. Not cause I have to anymore but to be consistent. My horse is calm and educated. But he sometimes decides he has a better idea. And will tend to think like your horse does. Gets lazy, wants to tune out and drop behind a horse. Starts drifting off and paying attention to other things besides me. So just doing what you are showing in this video. Truly gives the horse a chance to warm up and get relaxed and limber up before a long day. Also gives you both a chance to get connected before you get in the saddle and head out. I tack up and do it out in the open near the horse trailer, near his pasture and his pals. To remind him that when he’s with me and we’re heading out there is no other thing that is more important than the direction that I’m offering. This is spot on the proper way to lunge a horse. Like you said you are getting to the feet, the mind and a lot more. I’m still working on getting this without the halter and lead rope. True liberty. Cause the only time I use the halter and lead rope is when I am doing what you’re doing in the video. The rest of the time it’s liberty. I keep a four foot string I’ll tie around the neck if he’s not listening. But the goal this year is to get him to where he’s doing lunging with nothing else but my intent, body language and signal and further his training to the point where there’s no strings attached. Being a horseman is a journey that has no end destination. Just growth between the human and the horse. Love your videos and the message you have within your videos.

Love this video. I always say I’m going to do groundwork to make sure his mind is right, connected to me. I always do this before getting on. It’s non negotiable. Thanks for reinforcing this.

I am learning so much. Thank you.

Thanks for demonstrating true patience and wisdom. Very informative video Dwayne, I'm an outdoorsman, not a cowboy but an ironworker .

Excellent video Dewayne. The point you made about lunging being a mental activity is great advice that i havent heard enough people talk about. Ive seen lunging become this thing that people do on autopilot just because thats what they were taught to do, without understanding why. Thanks for the reminder

The title made me laugh quite a bit, i forgot you do horse stuff too so i thought this was another life advice video

That was beautiful- he seems so well trained! You are a great trainer!! Enjoyed the video. My second horse I had when I was a kid was a cutting horse that had a back leg damage/problem/ he was so well trained it was a dream riding him! Those were the days ❤

Really interesting, well explained. Thank yo u. Can't wait for the next one.

Such a great teaching . You made lots of good points that others usually don’t . Explaining that lunging and running in circles is pointless . I have ask trainers for years why do we do that ?. Almost all of them do . And I never get a clear answer 😗💭 I have never run my young horse like that . Bear is 2 almost 3. And we now just started doing exactly what you just taught . Thank you for giving me confidence that we have been doing the right thing . Laura 💜Bear

Love this! Thank you for the lesson

Amazing content. We always learn a lot from your knowledge.

Such a great timing. I was feeling extremely sad today, had really bad and toxic day because foolish people. Thanks the inspiration 🎉❤

Simple, effective, practical...i like this kind of horsemanship. Thank you, Sir.

Thank You for all of your horse videos, many of Your lessons give huge food for thought for someone who is european and learns riding european way. Whole new perspective :)

A master at work👍👍👍

Can’t thank you folks enough for this video, I have Mouse’s cousin Woodrow( Woody Blue Hancock) I have been doing the same “ exercise” with him because he has some VERY similar tendencies as your horse. Thank you for confirming that we are working in the correct direction. It is hard when you don’t have someone with similar style to watch and guide you. So very grateful for your guidance Dewayne.

Another great episode, back with horses. Thanks.

I love this. I've recently been unwillingly obedient at work. I should take a lesson from this!

Awesome Video, Dwayne! Thank you, Mama, Mouse, and Biscuit.

Love you Dewayne. Not the first time you’ve restated your wish to get back to horse topics….🐎 Absolutely agree with you on purposeful lunging. To perhaps add, I’m taught to treat my role on ground as little different than when I’m atop in the saddle. “Ground riding” if you like using similar rein control and lunging whip as leg pressure. Thanks for this valuable instruction.

Liked Mouse from his first video appearance! Thanks for the great reminders in this video.

Love your video. I have a Navaho mustang. She is learning to lunge. She has a habit to watch everything else but me. I have to bring back her attention to me. I thank you for the video.

Using the round pen and lunge line re-establishing dominance. Re-establishing the “pecking order”. Great video Dwayne. I can see your point how he’s gotten away with little things with the students which turns into big things. He easily transitioned into obeying your command(the lunge line end or quirt end) whether you were forward of the shoulder ( the brake) or behind the shoulder (the gas). I like his color. I’m thinking grulla. Thanks for sharing with us, Sir!

Been following your life advice videos for some time now, I'm 25, very traditional, and getting ready to ride for the first time in just a few months, content is invaluable. Keep it up.

Sooo good. Thank you

Dewayne, I love watching your horsemanship videos, please keep them coming.

Thanks for this video!

Thank you for this video.

Great video! I could it hear it just fine

Great video. What people need to hear. Almost exactly what I have said in several of my videos.

This video was amazing!

Super video!!

Big Thanks for the inspiration Greetings From Denmark 🇩🇰 I’ll take this with me. My Norwegian Fjord Horse and I, Want an attitude that make sense👍 ❤ Love Your Channel 🤠

I needed this today. My horse understands my anxiety means she can scare me and I will go easy on her.

would love to see you do parenting videos, I really liked your comment on how you'd treat unwilling obedience as disobedience, would love if you could go into that and similar things further!

Great video. I found it very helpful. Nice grulla.

Always enjoy all your videos ❤️. Has Mama decided about starting working leather projects.??? Would have some extra tools I could help her get started ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Thank you for the advice that unwilling obedience is to be treated as disobedience. I cannot be satisfied simply by fact he doesn’t try to swing his back end at me. One day I was thrilled when trainer called to suggest next day due to cold (Texas cold, nothing you’d notice up there!). I’d been lunging him and we’d started with galloping on ~25’ line. At first I was satisfied that he was circling without pulling and that I was able to slow him to canter. Eventually we managed to do a couple reasonable loops, but I figured that if I’d been riding I’d have little to no control and it would be unsafe. He was simply not gong to listen to me. Next day was far better, though I still got some minor bucking effort - stressful but manageable ride.

Interesting. Thx.

I enjoy your channel. I just ordered “The Log of a Cowboy”. If you haven’t read “We Pointed Them North” by E.C. (Teddy Blue) and Helena Huntington Smith, I think you would enjoy the recollections of a “real” trail rider and cow punch. Me: 70, 9 mules, three horses.

a metaphor received Dewayne!🙏

Great video

Awesome👌❤

Just lunged my ornery mares earlier this morning. Good to see that some folk like yourself take lunging seriously still. A lot of the folk that I have worked with in recent years invest in the mindless lunging, rather than building on the foundation and rhythm between horse and horseman. It all starts at ground level. Well said.

Good morning here from Romania I greet you with respect Marius 🙋🤠🇹🇩🕳️

"Movin' the feet is magic" ... Absolutely right

I don´t understand anything about horses. But dewayne tells it in a way even I am interested in it

Very nice ,

THIS MAN IS A VERY SMART INTELLIGENT WISE HUMAN BEING.

Thank you. Never been on a horse interesting :)

Glad you're back on horses. Admittedly, i stopped watching your videos for awhile because i come here for horse stuff. I was subbed before you had less than 500 subscribers. Looks like y'all are doing well since moving. I was in your old area of Tennessee just the other week. Did you ever try out those cigars i gave ya?

That horse is a beauty. I can see why you were keen to buy him. It could make for a good video series, to see you break a new horse.

I love your psychology with animals. How about spoiled cats?

As a new horse owner, I'm looking forward to more horsemanship videos!

Thank you for all that you do. My father (for whatever reason) did not teach me much about life so I'm a little behind but I'm catching up, thanks to you. Hope you and yours are well Dewayne! Beautiful animal and scenery.

Absolutely DeWayne, Leadership is about influence and controlled movement.

Great Video! Can you please do one on working with an older spooky horse?

Great content. Thank you! On a side note I notice there is no snow left in your area. Is that normal for this time of the year in your region?

a lot in common with K9 training, thanks

Always take away so many gems from these videos and use the horsemanship and horses as a metaphor for things or people in my life.

What denim jacket do you wear and wore in your campfire coffee video? I like it

Well, I’ve been riding Hancock for the last … almost twenty years. But they have been from the same Ranch. They all have a spark. But with all blood lines, it starts from the ground up and you’re doing what I think it is the right way.

I’m happy to hear the professional gets dizzy sometimes. Any tips on how to prevent that would be welcomed.

Damn Mr.Dewayne you look cool and badass like Arthur Morgan from rdr2 , great video loved it ! ✨✨

Dewayne , in a herd of cattle their is the same order. Dad's comment was the boss runs the feed bunk.

I learnt to ride, bareback, on the end of a lunging rope. Eventually we were put over jumps, bareback, too. Learnt to fall off, learnt to get back on.

I don’t have horses but great parenting advice

For horse and rider to be in the right frame of mind doing it right on the ground getting to know each other before you get respect riding I would think after this chatt If you learn ground work well together then you should not have to lunge before you ride just walking them to the riding area I would think unless they have a huge amount of energy for some reason

How's the book coming along?

Don't really have much interest in horse riding or training, but it's a pleasure to watch your calm and measured approach to animal psychology and using induction. Truly an independent learner. See that horse? That's how redpill content creators see RU-vidrs, except with much less finesse than Dewayne.

Excellent horsemanship

Nice

Dewayne, great show; been a subscriber many months now. A QUESTION: where can I get one of those brown cardigan sweaters, brother? I'm a couple of years older than you and that thing looks great on you (so I hope it'll look at least half as good on me!).

Funny, I thought by the looks of his stout legs and build he was a Hancock bred horse before you mentioned it.

'Any physical accomplishment must be directly related to attitude and mind.' That sounds strangely Musashi like, hehe.

No disrespect Dwayne!Good video.Mouse looks a little off in the back end?

Horses are very intelligent. They understand.

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Can you talk about having patience ? I don't have it, I want it, I need it but I always rush things that shouldn't have to be rushed.

We had a Hancock/king bred horse in the 70's. He was a little hot. He was always a good horse. You just had to be awake.

Longing them to take the edge off only makes them more fit. Over time it defeat the purpose.

I have some relatives that want me to ride their gelding and mare to get some of the rust off of them and get them active. These horses haven't been riden in over two years though. How long and how many sessions of lunging would be recommended before riding them? Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated.

Any advice on how to get a lazy stubborn horse who’s had way too much time off to move AT ALL on a lunge line? He will just stand there and stare at me. Doesn’t matter how much energy I put into it or how hard I’m cracking the whip, he won’t even walk for me 🤦‍♀️ and he knows how to. Others lunge him well. But I’m very new to this and he’s discovered he can get away with far too much lately. Trying to take that back.

Mouse is tellin' me, "Sit back, I got this!". Especially, if he has his alpha there too.

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@drycreekwranglerschool, any advice on how to handle a horse’s death?

Would training like this be beneficial for donkeys and llamas?

Did this channel just jump from a few hundred thousand to over a million recently or am i thinking of another channel? Nice